Internationally renowned video installation artist, Lynette Wallworth, was this week announced as the first AFTRS Creative Fellow. The announcement was made to an audience of film industry and arts sector guests where AFTRS CEO Sandra Levy congratulated Wallworth on her visionary ideas and her exciting project.
The AFTRS Creative Fellowship is designed to advance the work of creative voices in the screen arts and broadcasting sector and provides funding for talented individuals or small collaborative groups with ideas for moving image or screen-based projects.
Sandra Levy said "Lynette Wallworth is certainly one of those artists who has the imagination and ability to tell wonderful stories in a new form that astound audiences and engage them on an emotional level. As a pioneer in her field, it is a great pleasure to name her our very first Creative Fellow"
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist whose practice spans video installation, photography and short film. She specialises in the creation of immersive installation artworks that offer viewers a chance to touch and feel them and to experience an emotional response.
Wallworth will use the Fellowship to support her writing and to devise a full-length work to be shown in digital planetariums around the world.
"Full-dome environments offer an incredible alternate and immersive cinema space but it is absolutely rare that an individual artist outside of the institutions that drive them has the means to make a full-length work specifically for the full-dome environment. I am thrilled that AFTRS has decided to support such a work through their Fellowship," says Ms Wallworth.
This work will form part of a broader cross platform project entitled Rekindling Venus, to be launched in June 2012.
To read more about the Inaugural AFTRS Creative Fellowship, view the full media release >
Image: Invisible by Night (2004). Photo: Colin Davison. Image courtesy of the UK National Glass Centre and the artist.
